I see all over Lemmy, people really seem to hate hexbear, and I don't get it. Can someone explain why most of Lemmy seems to absolutely hate them?

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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    6 months ago

    I'll be honest, I'm irony poisoned enough to can't tell if you're joking or just an American.

    But just in case you're serious, I'll give a real short crash course on the difference between the left and right - and I mean this is really low brow basic that would get me shit for vulgarizing it so much.

    If you wish to abolish the capitalist economic mode of production and establish a socialist economic mode of production, you're on the left.

    If you do not wish to do that, you're on the right. This is why we - communists - call everyone from social democrats to fascists "Right-ists". They do not seek to abolish the current form of economic production, but preserve it. Ergo, why we call everyone liberals, for wanting to preserve the liberal market economy.

    • ahto@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 months ago

      No, I'm not joking, my confusion stemmed from the fact that those who used those terms always seemed to mean them in the way I described. (Probably mostly Americans who grew up with the two party system)

      In Germany - at least in my bubble - we don't talk about "liberals" vs "conservatives", the spectrum is more diverse.